Fun Facts

Records for Monopoly games

• Longest Monopoly game in a treehouse - 286 hours
• Longest game underground - 100 hours
• Longest game in a bathtub - 99 hours
• Longest game upside down - 36 hours
• Longest game ever played - 1680 hours/70 days (Not an official world record)
• On November 27, 1961, four Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, students began a Monopoly game that lasted for five days (120 and a half hours). During their game, the students ran out of Monopoly money, and Parker Brothers ordered $1 million in the currency delivered by air so that they could continue their game. The game ended on December 2 when the last dice roll was thrown by Parker Brothers Vice President Randolph Barton.

About the game

• Over 5,120,000,000 little green Houses have been "constructed" since Monopoly was first introduced.
• The total amount of money in a standard Monopoly game (prior to September 2008) is $15,140.
• The character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
• There are 22 properties that can be built upon.
• The most landed-on spaces are Illinois Avenue, B. & O. Railroad and Go.
• More Monopoly Money is printed every year than the real US dollars.

Food for thought

• In 1978, the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog offered a chocolate version of the game priced at $600.

Did you know?

• More than 480 million players from around the globe have played Monopoly.
• Over 20 tokens have been cast for the standard version of Monopoly, such as the horse, dog, car, elephant, purse and lantern.
• Monopoly is published in at least 27 languages.
• During World War II, maps hidden inside Monopoly boxes were smuggled by the British into German POW camps to aide Allied prisoners.
• November 19 is National Play Monopoly Day.
• Parker Brothers rejected Monopoly in 1933 because it contained 52 fundamental playing flaws.

Pattern in rent

• The mortgage value of a property is always half its cost.
• The site-only rent is typically $4 (£4) less than one tenth its cost, though this rule is breached by Baltic Avenue, Marvin Gardens, and both of the dark blues, Park Place and Boardwalk.
• The rent with one house is typically $20 (£20) less than half the cost of the property, though this rule is breached by Baltic Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and the dark blues.
• For 15 of the 22 properties on which it is possible to build houses, the rent with two houses is triple the rent with one house. The seven exceptions are Connecticut Avenue, Orange Color Set, Kentucky Avenue, Indiana Avenue, and Park Place.
• For the 14 properties from St. Charles Place to North Carolina Avenue, the rent with three houses is 6 times the rent with 1 house, plus $140 (£140), rounded to the nearest $50 (£50).
• The rent with four houses is generally close to, but never exactly, $210 (£210) plus 7 times the rent with one house.
• For the 10 properties from Virginia Avenue to Marvin Gardens the rent with a hotel is $600 (£600) plus 5 times the rent with one house.

References

• Julian Wiseman's Website.